Title: Dwelling in the text: houses in American fictionAuthor: Chandler, Marilyn RPublished: University of California Press, 1991Subjects: Literature | AmericanLiteraturePublisher's Description: What is a house? And what can architecture tell us about individual psychology, national character and aspiration? The house holds a central place in American mythology, as Marilyn Chandler demonstrates in a series of "house tours" through American novels, beginning with Thoreau's Walden and ending . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: The voice in the margin: Native American literature and the canonAuthor: Krupat, ArnoldPublished: University of California Press, 1989Subjects: Native American Studies | AmericanLiteraturePublisher's Description: In its consideration of American Indian literature as a rich and exciting body of work, The Voice in the Margin invites us to broaden our notion of what a truly inclusive American literature might be, and of how it might be placed in relation to an international - a "cosmopolitan" - literary canon. . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: The blood of strangers: stories from emergency medicineAuthor: Huyler, Frank 1964-Published: University of California Press, 1999Subjects: Medicine | AmericanLiterature | AutobiographyPublisher's Description: Reminiscent of Chekhov's stories, The Blood of Strangers is a visceral portrayal of a physician's encounters with the highly charged world of an emergency room. In this collection of spare and elegant stories, Dr. Frank Huyler reveals a side of medicine where small moments - the intricacy of suturin . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Getting to be Mark TwainAuthor: Steinbrink, JeffreyPublished: University of California Press, 1991Subjects: Literature | AmericanLiterature | Literary Theory and CriticismPublisher's Description: Mark Twain is one of our most accessible cultural icons, a figure familiar to virtually every American and renowned internationally. But he was not always as we know him today. Mark Twain began life as a loose gathering of postures, attitudes, and voices in the mind of Samuel Clemens. It was some ti . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Whitman and the romance of medicineAuthor: Davis, Robert Leigh 1956-Published: University of California Press, 1997Subjects: American Studies | AmericanLiterature | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: In this compelling, accessible examination of one of America's greatest cultural and literary figures, Robert Leigh Davis details the literary and social significance of Walt Whitman's career as a nurse during the American Civil War. Davis shows how the concept of "convalescence" in nineteenth-centu . . . [more]Similar Items